Canada, Ontario and a number of municipalities, conservation authorities and other organizations across Ontario offer financial incentives to landowners. Some are property tax incentives. Others are incentives to farmers to support on-farm environmental improvements.

For more information about a specific program, please contact the organization directly.

Province Wide

Environmental Farm Plan
http://www.ontariosoilcrop.org/EFP.htm

Healthy Futures for Ontario Agriculture
http://www.gov.on.ca/OMAF/english/hfoa/index.html

Ontario Eco-Action Community Funding Program
http://www.on.ec.gc.ca/ecoaction/home.html

Ontario Stewardship
http://www.ontariostewardship.org/index.htm

Wetland Habitat Fund
http://www.wetlandfund.com/

Ecological Gifts
http://www.on.ec.gc.ca/wildlife/ecogifts/ecogifts-e.html

Conservation Land Tax Incentive Program
http://www.mnr.gov.on.ca/MNR/cltip/

Managed Forest Tax Incentive Program
http://ontariosforests.mnr.gov.on.ca/mftip.cfm

Farmland Taxation Program
http://www.gov.on.ca/OMAFRA/english/infores/ftaxfaq.html

Great Lakes

Canadian Great Lakes Regional Action Plans
http://www.on.ec.gc.ca/glimr/raps/cdn-intro.html

Great Lakes Sustainability Fund
http://sustainabilityfund.gc.ca/intro-e.html

Southwestern Ontario

Essex Region Conservation Authority - Rural Non-Point Source Remediation Program
http://www.erca.org/soil/nps/nps.htm

Grand River Conservation Authority - Rural Water Quality Program
http://www.grandriver.ca

Hamilton Halton Watershed Stewardship Project
http://www.hamrca.on.ca/watershed_stewardship.html

Lower Thames Valley Conservation Authority - Healthy Futures in Chatham Kent
http://www.lowerthames-conservation.on.ca/

Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority - Rural Water Quality Program
http://www.conservation-niagara.on.ca/watershed/rural.html

Region of Waterloo - Rural Water Quality Program
http://www.region.waterloo.on.ca/

Upper Thames River Conservation Authority - Clean Water Project
http://www.thamesriver.org/CleanWaterProject/CWP.htm